Category: Design
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Rostering Solutions
My current UI/UX challenge is designing a complex rostering solution for NHS workers. Working in close collaboration with our stakeholders, product owners and the development teams we have been progressing through our user stories. We are working towards producing an intuaitive solution for the busy keyworkers in our hospitals. This is part of a larger…
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Style Guides
At the start of the year I took on a new challenge and a new job. I’m now working for a Uk based NHS approved supplier and again find myself as the sole lead UI/UX designer tasked with bringing consistency to an established product suite. Working in the product team I began this project with…
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Design System Testing
The design system project that I’m currently leading on is moving forward well. We are now in the testing phase after building out our digital product UI components in Figma with a Zeroheight front end. We are testing with a small group of developers and test analysts which have been made available from our scrum…
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Zeroheight
I’m building out our new product styleguide using zeroheight, this follows proof of concept work that I carried out using a Figma shared library. The UI elements and components form the building block for an established digital product. As our teams grow our new system will really help new team members understand and access our…
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Design System Governance
I’m working on the governance process for our new design system, this sets out how the system will be used by our product teams. We work in agile so this is a key consideration when planning the system’s work flow. Our system will be based on our digital products that we offer to B2B and…
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Design Systems
I’m currently leading on a design system project to help bring consistancy and streamline our design component production. It is the first step in a large project which is going to involve close collaboration with our UX design, development and test teams. At the end of last year I produced a proof of concept of…
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Dark Nights of Poetry at Year’s End
As the year draws to a close I’m reading more poetry and taking the chance to review what I’ve read this year. TS Eliot’s Four Quartets has been my go to poem of the year, I was reading it over summer, I really like the abstraction of this work. If you don’t know it look…
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UX Brighton
I attended UX Brighton last week, a conference which focuses on UX (User Experience), it was inspiring with a good mix of speaker. This year the theme was design which I particularly enjoyed as I’ve worked in this field for many years. The conferenece was well organised and has info packed talks form a range…
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Being Creative
Being creative is a challenge! Just remaining motivated on a daily basis in its self can be tough. I’ve been inspired by writing poetry and song writing recently which is a great outlet for my creativity. My design work is mainly visual and working on creative writing on a daily basis is a very complimentary…
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Website Scope
I’m working on another website scope, there is always a lot to consider when doing the very early stages of a web project to ensure that the best online solution is created for my client. My approach is quite methodical and I always ask a lot of questions! But this is part of the process…